THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST, [October i, 1888, 
as is probable, the exports of cinchona from Bolivia 
should assume abnormal proportions this year in con- 
sequence of the abolition of the export duty, we shall 
probably be able next season to publish statistical in- 
formation concerning the shipments from that country. 
The sudden doubling of the value of cinchona received 
from various less important countries is probably 
owing to the increased shipments from Jamaica and 
Africa, and to the fact that more Java bark has been 
sent to London for sale, either direct or via Holland. 
As regards our export trade in cinchona, the returns 
are valuable as showing at a glance that our re-shipments 
are drifting more and more towards Germany and Ame- 
rica. France, which is our best customer for South 
American cinchonas, takes an average of about 12,000 
owts per annum, and the amount of her purchases varies 
very little, but our shipments to Germany (including 
Holland and Belgium), which were only 40,675 cwt. 
in 1883, have gradually expanded to 70,692 cwt. in 1884, 
67,650 cwt. in 1885, 74,481 cwt. in 1886, and 74,360 
cwt. in 1887. "We must add to this the increasing 
quantities bought every year by Germany at the 
Amsterdam auctions, and the figures, therefore, go a 
long way to prove that in spite of the low quinine 
prices there must still be a margin for the manufac- 
turers to work the bark, since it cannot be supposed 
that the stock of a depreciating article is merely left 
to accumulate in Germany. Of course, we do not 
claim for our figures that they absolutely prove this 
contention, but still, taken in conjunction with other 
available statistics, they unmistakably point in that 
direction. Next to Germany the United States are 
our best customers for cinchona, and to this country 
also a very large increase in the shipments is shown, 
the excess of quinine thus shipped in the bark fully 
counterbalancing the decrease in the imports of pre- 
pared quinine into the States. Italy also buys more 
and more bark every year, the fall in the shipments in 
1885, consequent upon the failure of the Milan quinine 
works, being the only exception. 
London, Aug. 16. 
Cinchona. — The total quantity offered for public 
sale on Tuesday was somewhat smaller than that 
catalogued for the preceding auctions (3,779 against 
4,179 packages), but on Tuesday more Eastern barks, 
forming on the whole a very good assortment, were 
shown, the catalogues consisting of 1,907 packages, 
Oeylon, including a large quantity of Hybrid bark, but 
little Officinalis. For Ceylon bark there was a fair, 
though by no means excessive, competition, and three- 
fourths of the supply offered sold at fully last auc- 
tion's rates, and in some cases at about 5 per cent 
advance. Of Indian barks, 442 packages were 
offered, mostly from Southern India (Nilgiri 
Hills), but the demand was rather slack. Java 
cinchona was in better supply than usual, 190 packages 
Ledgeriana, including no particularly fine lots, being 
offered and sold. South American cinchonas, finally, 
were represented by 1,240 packages, mostly Ouprea 
(506 packages), which is at present a veritable drug in 
the market, and of which parcels imported several 
years ago are beiug constantly offered for sale. Of 
Bolivian Caiisaya bark there were 427 packages, and 
the rest was made up of 189 packages Pitayo 
and 118 soft Ooiombia. A few lots were disposed 
of. The unit is generally estimated at 2d to 2£d, or 
very slightly in excess of the preceding auctions, and the 
principal buyers were the agents for the Mannheim 
and other German factories. The prices realised were 
as follows : — Oeylon Cinchona.— Succirubra — Dust 3J ; 
ordinary and branch to fair stem chips, ]£d to 4d ; good 
strong chips, 4£ to 5£d ; spoke shavings, common lo fine, 
2^d to 5£d ; root, including "renewed" lots, 2d to 5d; 
quill, fair to good stout silvery druggist's 6d to 9d ; re- 
newed, medium to fine, mostly shavings, 4|d to 8d. Offi- 
cinalis — Chips, small branchy to fine bold stout stem, 3d 
to 0Jd ; root, 4£d to 8Jd. Hybrid, &c,: — Chips, weak to 
fine Ledger, 2£d to 7d ; root, 4d to 4£d ; quill, 
bright 9d. A few packages very flue bright 
natural Ledger spoke shavings, Is 5d per lb. Indian 
Cinchona. — Succirubra— Sittings, Id to 2nd ; ordinary 
to fine stum chips, 2-Jd to 6Jd. Officinalis— Branch, 
Id ; shaviiigs, 4|d to 6d ; root, including reuowod, 
6d to lid, Hybrid — Branch, 2£d to 5d; chips, 4d to 
5^d; root, lOJd ; thin weak quill, 2gd per lb. Java, 
Cinchona. — Ledgeriana — Chips, young to fair quilly, 
3d to 6d; good stout strong, 7d to 9d ; root, 
9d to lid ; branch and sittings 2d to 3d per lb. 
South Ameeican Cinchona. — Caiisaya from the 
Bolivian plantations, in quills, fairly good to strong 
and of fine appearance, 8d to lOd. , old Cuprea, 3jd.; 
and common Pitaya at £d to Id. per lb. The imports 
of cinchona into Germany during the first half-year 
of 1888 were 1,843,100 kilos., against 2,359,600 kilos, 
during the first half-year of 1887. The re-exports of 
cinchona from Germany were respectively 12,200 and 
10,800 kilos. The exports of cinchona bark from private 
plantations in Java for the first four months of the 
year has been : — 
1886. 1887. 1888. 
To Holland Kilos. 162,544 153,933 382,551 
„ England „ 30,684 17,636 44,743 
Kilos. 193,228 171,569 427,294 
The following figures represented the cinchona trads 
of the United Kingdom during the last five years : — 
Exported to 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 
Germany cwt. 10,188 12,836 15,420 31,452 30,522 
„ value* 82,686 66,904 75,134 154,632 129,998 
Holland cwt. 20,838 52,862 42,307 40,439 34,424 
„ value £ 159,884 358,155 197,371 188,415 126,478 
Belgium cwt. 9,649 4,994 10,223 2,590 3.414 
„ value £ 82,058 33,980 46,087 11,133 15,270 
France cwt. 10,580 12,659 12,803 13,830 10,944 
90,660 84,211 83,748 65,024 48,181 
7,719 8,936 1,583 9,614 12,125 
52,568 55,647 11,898 31,446 48,348 
Italy 
vaiue £ 
cwt. 
value £ 
United 
States cwt. 
„ value £ 
Other coun- 
tries cwt. 
„ value £ 
Total ex- 
ports owt. 
,, value £ 
Imported from 
France., cwt. 
., value £ 
British India 
(Madras) cwt. 
British India 
(Mad.) value £ 
Ceylon., cwt. 
„ value £ 
U.S.Colom- 
bia cwt. 
,, value £ 
Ecuador cwt. 
,, value £ 
Peru . . cwt. 
Peru value £ 
Chili . . cwt. 
Chili value £ 
Other coun- 
tries cwt. 
„ value £ 
7,798 
70,716 
2,607 
17,227 
10,163 29,720 
76,144 203,342 
19,669 33,494 
93,768 110,441 
488 
4,295 
384 
3,931 
397 
3,376 
456 
2,920 
69,379 102,938 112,440 117,991 131,379 
555,799 679,336 621.511 547,794 481,636 
1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 
11,973 5,384 1,881 3,995 1,863 
192,510 68,634 22,959 40,525 15,124 
3,216 2,494 6,588 8,151 10,783 
47,738 26,697 55,245 57,615 
47,860 78,055 106,375 114,932 
474,69'J 579,014 655,646 564,802 
29,196 
391,857 
9,399 
120,818 
2,508 
40,772 
2,800 
44,713 
6,456 
65,349 
3,519 
55,861 
1,950 
28,301 
2,013 
23,849 
2,192 
28,055 
2,120 
32,729 
2,557 
28,258 
928 
9,693 
4,975 
53,982 
621 
9,613 
1,537 
12,848 
1,891 
12,966 
9,969 5,920 5,463 9,265 
110,409 57,794 41,742 49,002 
55,742 
105,282 
431,379 
686 
5,531 
344 
4,529 
2,660 
33,835 
3,059 
20,401 
18,506 
94,641 
Total imports 
cwt. 116,921 105,791 128,104 145,367 143,177 
„ value £1,423,516 905,499 874,332 801,353 661,182 
TEADE IN FLAVORING BEANS. 
To the report of the Committee on Statistios, 
made at the late annual convention of dealers in 
drugs, we are indebted for the following statement 
of the trade in Vanilla beans: — 
The reports in circulation for the last year or 
two about a great falling off in the crop of Vanilla 
bean6 in Mexioo are not borne out by the statistics 
of imports for the past three years, which are as 
follows : — 
Lbs 
1885 97,095 
1886 09,529 
1887 137,479 
